By Rebecca Goldfine,Staff Writer

NORWAY – After a couple of residents reported seeing debris falling onto the frozen Pennesseewassee Stream during the demolition of the C.B. Cummings & Sons mill, EnterpriseMaine has said it will prevent any building material from littering the downtown waterway.

EnterpriseMaine, an economic development organization, is overseeing the destruction of the old dowel mill. That is expected to continue until the end of March.

“They are so close to the river, it is awfully hard to prevent a cement block or piece of roof from falling into the river,” Marcy Boughter of EnterpriseMaine said Monday. “The demolition company has been trying to prevent it, and when they can, they go out there to retrieve it.”

Since Pennesseewassee Stream is frozen, it’s just a matter of scooping up the material from the ice, she said. The demolition contractor, Environ Services of Gorham, has also put up a silt fence to help prevent debris from landing in the stream.

Anne Campbell of Norway said she watched contractors pull down a building close to the stream from the windows of her office on Main Street and Pikes Hill Road last week. She said she noticed parts of the structure landing on the frozen stream. She was not the only one who called EnterpriseMaine to question this, Boughter said.

“None of the debris has gone downstream,” Boughter said. “You can see it lying on the ice.”

Boughter wrote in an e-mail, “I would like to get the word out to the community that we are taking every precaution to remove the debris should it fall into the stream as quickly as possible.”